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| LAPA
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Laurence
A. Pagnoni, President
Enid Harlow, Senior Grants Associate
Melissa Shurkin, Senior Associate
Bodi
Luse, Project Associate
Raissa Smorol, Project Associate
Robert Zuber, Project Associate
Mark Engler, Development Associate
Dwayne Sampson, Executive Assistant
Susan & Bill Philliber,
Senior Consultants, Philliber Research Associates
Elsa Ríos, Senior Consultant, Community
Impact Consulting
Orlando Adiao, Senior Consultant, AT Design
NY
David Schiffer, Senior Consultant, DLS Design
Julia Ritchie, Senior Consultant
Alissa Schwartz, Senior Consultant
Sr. Ellie Shea, Senior Consultant,
Spiritual Formation
Mary McBride, Senior Consultant,
Strategies for Planned Change
Maria Semple, Senior Consultant, The
Prospect Finder, Inc.
Dwight Tintle, Senior Consultant, Dat-A-Gap
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| Laurence
A. Pagnoni, President |
Laurence
A. Pagnoni, MA, MPA,
is president of Laurence A. Pagnoni & Associates and has
22 years of executive and nonprofit management experience. Prior
to establishing his consulting practice, Mr. Pagnoni served
as executive director of three non-profit agencies. He
holds advanced degrees in Public Administration, Theology, and
Spirituality (most recently an MPA / MS in Management at the
Wagner School of Public Service at New York University). Mr.
Pagnoni is a seminar facilitator and an informed public speaker
who motivates and inspires audiences on diverse subjects such
as team building, executive support, and staying healthy at
work. As president of Laurence A. Pagnoni & Associates,
he gathers effective consultants to serve a diverse client base.
He also serves on the board of directors of many nonprofit agencies
and provides counsel about strategic planning, diversification
of revenue, leadership support, and community relations. Click
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Enid
Harlow, MA, is a writer and editor
of technical grants, nonfiction articles, and novels. Enid takes
grantwriting and production to new levels by joining her creative
writing skills with the format requirements attendant to private
and public requests for funding. As LAPA's Senior Grants Officer,
she leads a team that sends out 3,000 grants and secures $3
to $5 million annually.
Her most recent novel, "A Better Man," is available
through Van Neste Books or at www.amazon.com
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Melissa
Shurkin,
MMHS, is a Senior Associate and the Project
Director for an outcome evaluation of 23 AIDS organizations
funded through the Congressional Black Caucus. Melissa combines
her expertise in management, planning and evaluation strategy
with her astute knowledge of change management, communications
and service training. Prior to joining LAPA, Melissa worked
on training and professional development issues at the NYC Administration
for Children Services where she assisted in the planning and
implementation of a city-wide training initiative for child
welfare caseworkers and supervisors. Melissa has a Masters degree
in Management of Human Services with a concentration in child,
youth, and family services from Brandeis University's Heller
Graduate School.
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Bodi
Sun Luse, MS, is a Project Associate for LAPA. She combines
advanced communications and project management skills with a
deep understanding of the nonprofit and philanthropic sectors
in New York City. Bodi brings experience in grantmaking to and
technical assistance for neighborhood-based community groups.
She graduated magna cum laude from Yale University and has a
graduate degree in Nonprofit Management from the Robert J. Milano
School of Management and Urban Policy at the New School University.
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Raissa
Smorol, MPA, is a Project Associate for LAPA. She combines
expertise in fundraising, project management, and organizational
strategy with a practical approach to working with emerging
nonprofit organizations. She has extensive experience with business
planning and marketing, and has a personal interest in social
entrepreneurship. She completed her undergraduate degree at
Cornell University and has a graduate degree in Public Administration
from Columbia University's School of International and Public
Affairs.
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Robert
Zuber, Ed.D is a Project Associate for LAPA. He combines
expertise in fundraising, project management, and strategic
planning for community, religious, international and emerging
nonprofit organizations, including work with projects in Harlem,
rural North Carolina, Egypt, India, Australia and western Canada.
He has graduate degrees in divinity from Yale University and
in "Religion and the Philosophical Foundations of Education"
from Columbia University.
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Mark
Engler , BA, is a writer and activist with experience
working in political, academic, and labor organizations, as
well as a wide range of nonprofits. At LAPA he specializes in
preparing grants, newsletters, and promotional materials. He
has previously worked for the Arias Foundation for Peace and
Human Progress in San José, Costa Rica, as well as the
Public Intellectuals Program at Florida Atlantic University.
He holds a B.A. from Harvard University.
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Dwayne
Sampson,
BA , has over ten years of experience in fundraising
for nonprofit community based organizations. He serves as Executive
Assistant to Laurence Pagnoni, with whom he began his career
in the nonprofit community. He has also served on the Young
Development Professionals Committee of the Association of Fundraising
Professionals, and as a member of the New York Quarterly Meeting
Africa Education Committee. He holds a B.A. from Pace University.
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Elsa
Ríos, MSW, has over twenty years
of experience providing organizational development consultation
services and training to not-for-profit organizations including:
executive coaching, leadership skills training, board development,
grants writing, program development and policy research, analysis
and writing of policy reports.
Elsa is a Project Consultant for an outcome evaluation
of 16 AIDS organizations funded through the Congressional Black
Caucus.
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Julia
Ritchie, CSW, is a training expert who works to develop
strategic plans and program expansion, curricula design and
training facilitation. Julia provides staff development and
technical assistance, program assessments, team building and
performance coaching. Along with Mr. Pagnoni, Julia co-facilitates
CEOs Together, a special training group for non-profit chief
executive officers.
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Susan
and Bill Philliber, Ph.Ds., Co-Principals of Philliber
Research Associates, are program evaluators helping non-profits
measure their outcomes of service. They work with many AIDS
pediatric programs and with prison programs, and are experts
in their field. Susan and Bill are well known in the New York
area through their association with the Robin Hood Foundation.
Mr. Pagnoni and Susan have worked together in designing daily
use forms for capturing intake and casework data for client-centered
housing, day treatment, and pastoral care services. For more
information, please visit www.philliberresearch.com
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Alissa
Schwartz, MSW, brings training, facilitation and research
skills to a wide range of projects including conflict resolution
seminars and systems analysis. Alissa is a skilled listener
and writer. She is also affiliated with NYU’s Wagner School
of Public Service and her most recent publication exposed and
discussed problems in New York City’s shelter system for homeless
adults.
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Orlando
Adiao has been organizing information since the age
of nine when he laid out his first newspaper and sold it to
family members. He's been at it ever since. He has designed
books, CDs, magazines, brochures and catalogs, Web sites, posters,
and logos for clients as diverse as Lincoln Center and a flower
farm in the Philippines. His most recent award was for the NYC
2001 gay and lesbian Pride logo competition. He is a graduate
of Parsons School of Design, and is the principal of AT Design
in Brooklyn, New York. For more information, please visit www.ATDesignNY.com
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David
Schiffer specializes in the design and implementation
of graphically rich Web sites and other on-screen interfaces;
logo design; and high-end print work. He has produced award-winning
designs for scores of clients: corporations, leading law firms,
hi-tech companies and non-profit organizations, as well as real
estate, media, entertainment, fashion and industrial companies.
David has consulted us in designing our own Web site, as well
as in designing Web sites for seven Harm Reduction clients.
For more information, please visit www.dlsdesign.com
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Sr.
Ellie Shea, Director of Spiritual Formation, leads on-going
group processes for organizations interested in enhancing their
ability to learn. The learning organization process, as developed
by MIT management expert Peter Senge, has influenced her work.
Since 1993, Mr. Pagnoni and Sr. Ellie have been working together
co-facilitating groups, mostly with faith-based congregations.
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Mary
McBride, DBA, Ph.D., President of Strategies for Planned
Change and on the faculty of the Wagner School for Public Service,
New York University, is a life-long learner and a superb teacher
sought after throughout the country. Her doctoral studies have
been in both business administration (Stern School at NYU) and
psychology (CUNY), making her a valuable resource for the nonprofit
community.
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Maria
Semple,
principal of The Prospect Finder, provides extensive research
on individuals, foundations, and corporations who are considered
major donor prospects. In addition, she provides training services
to help nonprofits new to the field of prospect research. Maria
is a member of the Association of Professional Researchers for
Advancement and a founding member of the Nonprofit Consultants
Collaborative in New Jersey.
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Dwight
Tintle,
President of Dat-A-Gap, provides data processing, mail preparation,
and cause marketing services to nonprofit organizations, businesses,
and churches in New York, New Jersey, and beyond. Dat-A-Gap
specializes in maintaining mailing lists, tracking gifts and
donations, creating custom reports, and managing automated mailings,
small and large. Dwight has worked with LAPA since 1998.
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